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The 1970 Cole’s Cross Reference Directory—an avocado-green volume in the corner of the fourth floor of Central
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The 1970 Cole’s Cross Reference Directory—an avocado-green volume in the corner of the fourth floor of Central
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If you’d have talked to Washington Irving the night before he set out from Fort Gibson on his 1832 romp through Green
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I watched a man I’d just met lug what looked like an industrial tricycle into the middle of an open soccer field. He
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In 1973, author and two-time Libertarian presidential candidate Harry Browne published How I Found Freedom in an Unfree
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When Richard Linihan was a boy, his mother dreamt that a horse bit her on the back of the neck. She couldn’t shake
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Mutton busting is that curiosity tucked between lines of tall letters on rodeo posters, usually toward the bottom.
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Janine Esler’s entry for the 2011 Grand National Wedding Cake Competition rode in the back of her van through five
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Badger sipped coffee in the audience at The Gypsy Coffee House open-mic night for an entire year before he wrote his
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About 20 years ago, a group of students at Rhema Bible Training Center met in secret, somewhere under that spinning
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The billboards go up in early November: the flushed cheeks of a Coca-Cola- reminiscent Santa Claus rendered 10 feet
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For someone who’s not from here, it must be eerie to head out for breakfast on a Sunday morning and discover the
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Here it comes, I’d tell myself. I’d know it was almost time by the way my parents’ car would begin to wind along
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“You lose racers in crashes,” he said. “What happened today, this morning, is different.” I’m talking to
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At the front of Meeting Room A at the Case Community Center in Sand Springs sat a projector on a metal stand, humming
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The artifacts arrived in a truck at the back door of Gilcrease Museum, shipped there in cardboard boxes. They’d been
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Kathy Todoroff took the phone from her husband. She remembers asking into the receiver: “What would you like to eat,
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His four-day road trip traced I-40 from Durham to L.A. By the end he’d seen the Smoky Mountains, Meteor Crater in
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The crowd of spectators lining the edges of the course are packed just as tightly as the racers—shoulder to shoulder,
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Waffle Champion surfaced on the Oklahoma City corner of the Facebook universe last summer, posting a series of photos
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Jessica Gripp pulled off her T-shirt, revealing the black demi-bra underneath. A few of her classmates helped her on
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Debbie Keef sat on the sidewalk in her black sweat suit, Elvis Presley’s signature in nail heads on her right hip.
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The 1970 Cole’s Cross Reference Directory—an avocado-green volume in the corner of the fourth floor of Central
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A single bat represents one out of every four or five mammals on earth. The Mexican free-tailed bat is the speedster of
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J.M. Hall, the often-called Father of Tulsa who partnered with his brother H.C. in the early 1880s to build Tulsa’s
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ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD: Check out this track from Oklahoma singer-songwriter John Fullbright's "From the Ground
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My husband and I pulled into the parking lot of the United States Shooting Academy early in the morning, taking a
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Shaun Perkins forged the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry out of her father’s old machine shop as a tiny monument to
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Mutton busting is that curiosity tucked between lines of tall letters on rodeo posters, usually toward the bottom.
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Jon Mooneyham is an Antlers graduate, a non-practicing Pastafarian, the un-un-cola. A former member of The Flaming
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They convened in a meeting room in the back of an old Borden’s Cafeteria. A bald man with a soft paunch, looking
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